Friday, October 31, 2008

In an article published this week announcing a local studio in Springs, NY, the paper stated

The station was founded in 1963 by the University of Bridgeport. It was sold some years later, when the university’s radio station folded, to its own membership. It is run and owned by a board of directors that is elected each year by the members, according to Mr. Ernst.

I've been at WPKN for many years, and to my knowledge the station never folded. Learn something new every day.

Set FourMothers of Invention; Big Leg Emma; Absolutely Free (1968/1995 Rykodisc)KU Jazz Ensemble; Ain't That a Kick in the Head; The Best is Yet to Come (2008 Sea Breeze)Roxy Perry; Stone in the Sea; Back in Bluesville (BluePerry Hill)Cynthia Holiday; More Today Than Yesterday; All the Way (2008 Miles High)Jimmy Herring; Lost; Lifeboat (2008 Abstract Logix)[mic break 11:58 a.m.]

Set SixBoris Garcia; Captain Jack; Once More Into the Bliss (2008 Dig Music)Heavy Metal Duo; Broken Open; Work Songs and Other Spirituals (2004)Frank Zappa; Theme From the Third Movement of Sinister Footwear; You Are What You Is (1981 Rykodisc)Portinho Trio; Aquarela do Brasil; Vinho do Porto (2008 MCG Jazz)[mic break 1:38 p.m.]

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Who from Tempe, Arizona and Sacred Heart University find this blog so interesting?Are really there that many people looking for pictures of Donna Jean?Are all the 24 fans looking for anything and everything about the show until it comes back?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Dr. Helen Smith wonders if it's time to "go John Galt" -- a reference to the hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, who led a strike of the productive industrialists against the government backed looters.

Obama talks about taking from those who are productive and redistributing to those who are not — or who are not as successful. If success and productivity is to be punished, why bother? Perhaps it is time for those of us who make the money and pay the taxes to take it easy, live on less, and let the looters of the world find their own way.

My question to readers is, what are some ways to “go John Galt” (legally, of course) — that is, should productive people cut back on what they need, make less money, and take it easy so that the government is starved for funds, or is there some other way of making a statement?

Set FiveStan Bock; I'll Remember April; Your Check's in the Mail (2007 OA2)Heavy Metal Duo; East St. Louis Toodle-oo; Work Songs and Other Spirituals (2004)Pat Metheny Group; Part 4; The Way Up (2005 Nonesuch)[mic break 1:05 p.m.]